Jamaican citizen sentenced to incarceration in $96,000
bank fraud scheme involving stolen checks

  Washington, D.C. – David E. McIntosh, a 24-year-old Jamaican citizen now residing in Florida, was ordered incarcerated today on his prior guilty plea to bank fraud for his role in a $96,000 stolen check scheme he committed in 2005, announced U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

McIntosh, originally from Ocho Rios, Jamaica, but now living in Pembroke Pines, Florida, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia by the Honorable Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. to four months of incarceration to be followed by two years of supervised release. The Court also ordered McIntosh to make restitution of $96,229.03 to the defrauded bank. McIntosh, who has overstayed his visa, may be subject to deportation from the United States upon completion of his sentence.

According to the proffer of evidence by the government at the time of the plea, which was agreed to by McIntosh, McIntosh was hired as a temporary employee at Applied Technology Systems, Inc., in Arlington, Virginia, from April 18, 2005, to mid-August of 2005, as an Accounts Payable Clerk. McIntosh’s job duties included filing, data processing and assistance with accounts payable.

In the middle of August of 2005, McIntosh resigned from Applied Technology with one day's notice. Several weeks after McIntosh's departure, a bank reconciliation conducted by the Chief Financial Officer for Applied Technology revealed four Applied Technology checks out of sequence. An investigation by the Accounting Department Controller for Applied Technology revealed four checks were stolen and fraudulently processed with the forged signature of the CFO, who was the authorizing official, for a loss of $96,229.03. The four checks included: (1) one made payable to a company in California in the amount of $43,200.27; (2) one made payable to the California company in the amount of $48,728.52; (3) one made payable to subject #1 in the amount of $3,000.12; and (4) one made payable to subject #2 in the amount of $1,500.12.

The stolen checks were drawn on the account of Applied Technology at Sky Bank, an FDIC insured bank headquartered in Bowling Green, Ohio. The bank incurred an approximately $96,000 loss as a result of this fraud.

It was subsequently determined that Subject #1 met McIntosh while attending Howard University in Washington, D.C. Subject #1 recalled McIntosh asking subject #1 to cash a check for McIntosh from work, as a favor. McIntosh provided the check to subject #1 the next day. Subject #1 deposited the check which was made payable to subject #1 in the amount of $3,000.12, into subject #1's bank account in Washington, D.C. Subject #1 then wrote McIntosh a check for $3,000 from subject #1's checking account.

McIntosh asked subject #2 to cash a check in the amount of $1,500.12 for subject #2 in August of 2005. When subject #2 asked McIntosh why the check was made out to subject #2, McIntosh instructed subject #2 not to worry about it. After depositing the check in subject #2's account in Miami, Florida, subject #2 provided McIntosh subject #2's ATM number which he used to withdraw the money from subject #2's account.

When confronted, McIntosh admitted to law enforcement agents that he stole all four blank checks from Applied Technology while working at the company. McIntosh said he filled in two of the blank stolen checks on a typewriter at Howard University in the presence of subject #3 who was a friend of subject #1. One was made out to subject #1 in the amount of $3,000.12, and the other was made out to subject #2 in the amount of $1,500.12. McIntosh said he gave the other two blank stolen checks to subject #3 who was present with him as he typed up the first two checks.

In August of 2005, checks #1 and #2 were drawn on Applied Technology’s account for $43,000.27 and $48,728.52, respectively. The checks had been deposited into the California company’s bank accounts at the branches, respectively, in Washington, D.C., and in Riverdale, Maryland.

In announcing today’s sentence, U.S. Attorney Taylor and Assistant Director in Charge Persichini praised the hard work of the FBI agents involved in this matter, especially Special Agent Kelly Bender and Mary Soudrette. They also acknowledged the efforts of former-Legal Assistant Teesha Tobias and Legal Assistant Lisa Robinson, as well as Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Butler, who prosecuted this matter.